SEUL: Building install disks

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

Ok ... I now have a platform that can build install disk sets for bo
on demand.  Here is what I had to do:

Install debian from CDROM. 

Run dselect and other than editor, MUA, MTA, and newsrerader, allow all
default selections to install.

Rerun dselect and set all packages to hold using =

Reset the Access selection to point to ftp.debian.org and use stable

Update packages and select libc5, libc5-dev, and libc5-pic for upgrade and
boot-floppies for install. The boot-floppies package on the cdrom is not
going to work well.  Use the updated package on the ftp site.

Install these packages and again select them for hold using = after
installation.

Change Access now to point to bo-unstable, update packages and select tar
for upgrade.

Now you need to make a couple of changes on the system.  In
/usr/lib/syslinux, copy all files with a k in the filename to another file
with the same name except drop the k.  (e.g. img1440k.gz becomes
img1440.gz). Edit
/usr/src/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisks/generate_library to comment out
the line that looks like:

strip --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment
--remove-section=.debug \
/var/tmp/lib.$$

You will notice that the first line of the command is continued using a \
You must comment out both lines.

Now you should be able build install disks.

What I would like to do is build a transition set.  This would basicly be
a bo-type installation that installs a hamm type system with both libc5
and glibc. There is not enough room on the boot disk to put both libs but
there is, I think, enough in the base system.

This is only an excersize and most of what is learned here should carry
over to the 2.0 install. SEUL has to learn how to modify install disks.
Yeah, I know that I lead -distrib and this is -install's job. Consider
this a contribution to the -install group as a SEUL member.


George Bonser 
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